364-days: The Calendar of Reconciliation New Year on the 364 Calendar: Table from 1915 – 2075 AD  The Book of Enoch, the Book of Jubilees, other extra-biblical literature of that period, and to a lesser extent, the Bible all utilize a year of 364 days. But why 364? 364 is divisible by weeks (seven) and four seasons (91 x 4 = 364). It’s the Calendar of Reconciliation because it reconciles “seven” (the number for perfection) and “thirteen” (the number for rebellion and failure) (7 x 13 = 91). And this reconciliation is universal, which is what 4, 40, 400, etc., symbolizes, as in “the four corners of the earth” (4 x 13 x 7 = 364). However, 364 is short of an exact (but slowly decreasing) solar year 365.24218967. (For example, the year length was around 365.2423 (365 + 63/260) at the time of Christ and 365.2425 at Creation as 4114 BC, MT.) This raises the question of how one should reconcile the 364-day year with the actual solar year without disturbing the integrity of the calendar’s unending cycles of perfect ‘sevens’ (weeks). Side note: During the time of Christ, the Book of Jubilees gained popularity, detailing Enoch’s heavenly ascent for “294 years,” equal to six jubilees, with each jubilee spanning 49 years. The book also designates a 364-day year to Enoch, a detail found in the Book of Enoch too. According to the Book of Enoch (81:5), Enoch spent “one year” back on Earth. Intriguingly, the Bible documents Enoch’s lifespan as 365 years (Gen. 5:22-26). All these numerical specifics correspond perfectly. Enoch serves as a precursor to Christ, as both figures descended from heaven to the underworld and then returned to heaven. The solar year at Christ’s resurrection in AD 33 was exactly 365 + 63/260 days long. A period of 293 years (365 + 63/260 days per year) is “364 days” shorter than a span of “294 years of 364 days per year, with a difference of just one second (363.999987 days)! (Moreover, 63/260 symbolizes atonement because “7” covers the imperfection of “13” — 63 x 40 = 360 x seven and 260/20 = thirteen. We refer again to the “40” and “20” years cycles a little later.) There are Two Fundamental Methods of Calendar Intercalation: The year is scrutinized every spring (non-mechanized),’ and the other, ‘Adjustments are worked out many years ahead of time (mechanized). Different people groups, including Jews, throughout ages, add leap months to their lunar calendars when it lags behind the Spring Equinox by more than a month (or some other similar methodology). This is the ‘non-mechanized’ method. It works best for non-dispersed, united people. However, other people groups, such as the Babylonians and post-exilic Jews, utilize a mechanized approach, valid no matter where one lives on earth. Both mechanized and non-mechanized methods usually have the same outcome. Like the lunar calendar, the Enochian Calendar is adjusted to the true solar year using either method. Therefore, there are two ways of calculating leap weeks for the Enochian Calendar: 1. (Non-mechanized) A decision is made every spring 1. (Non-mechanized) A decision is made every spring A leap week is added when the 364-day year lags behind the Spring Equinox by more than a week. This is a valid method and works well for non-dispersed, united people. 2. (Mechanized) Calculations that approximate the Spring Equinox far in advance Both are compatible. There are other methods.  But after much study, these two are the best and most likely reflected in the Bible and other extra-biblical literature. Remember that our goal is not to create calendars to live by. Our purpose is to analyze patterns produced by the 364 Calendar that gave rise to the symbolic meaning of numbers in the Bible. Footnote: The Essenes (of the Dead Sea Scrolls) likely just added a leap week when it strayed too far behind the Spring Equinox. However, in this study, we do not care what the Essenes practiced but rather what the Bible, the Book of Enoch, and the Book of Jubilees say or imply. 2a. The Enoch Jubilee Calendar The intercalation of leap weeks marks the Sabbath year, the Jubilee, and the Grand Jubilee. God commanded that every seventh year was a Sabbath rest for the land. Every seven times seven years is the Jubilee (49 years). A Grand Jubilee (490 years) equals ten regular Jubilees, Dan. 9:24-27; Enoch 91-93; Book of Jubilees. Method of Intercalation of “Leap-Week” Harmony of Enoch Jubilee Calendar with other calendars The last seven years of Daniels’s “70 weeks” have 2569 days, and 2569 is also seven lunar years. Moreover, “1260”, combined with Enoch’s 1274, is immensely compatible with the seven days of Passover and Tabernacles, which occur in the third week of the year and last a week (Nisan/Tishri 15th to 21st incl.) It allows the variable one, two, or three “leaps weeks” at the end of every seven years to interlock with the festivals of Israel, which always occur on Wednesdays in the Enoch Calendar. In other words, in a sense, Passover and Tabernacles overlap the leap week, similar to the five festive epagomenal days of the Egyptians. No calendar perfectly aligns with the true solar year but requires adjustments to remain accurate. The overlap of the leap week with Passover and Tabernacles corrects, reconciles, justifies, and atones using a flawless calendar in an imperfect universe. The leap week covers (“atones”) the anniversary of the original seven days of creation every seven years. But on the jubilee, not just creation but Passover is atoned for in anticipation of the flawless Lamb of God: They hung Jesus high like the Sun and Moon at noon as if night, on the 30th jubilee from when Israel entered the Promised Land. (See 30 Jubilees to Christ’s death according to the Kings of Israel.) The struggle with an imperfect cosmos is a constant theme in Enoch. (Enoch was 364 years of age when the following was written, Enoch 81:64 with Genesis 5:23.) And the leaders of the heads of the thousands, who are placed over the whole creation and over all the stars, have also to do with the four intercalary days, being inseparable from their office, according to the reckoning of the year, and these render service on the four days which are not reckoned in the reckoning of the year. (Note: Hence a year is 360 days long with the extra “four” epagomenal days “not reckoned.” Thus, “1260 days” is the same as 1274 days, and even 1281 with a leap week!) And owing to them men go wrong therein, for those luminaries truly render service on the world-stations, one in the first portal, one in the third portal of the heaven, one in the fourth portal, and one in the sixth portal, and the exactness of the year is accomplished through its separate three hundred and sixty-four stations. Enoch 75:1-2, cf., 80:2,6; 82:4-11. (This explains the “three week delay” of the angel in Dan. 10, which happens right after the revelation of the 490 years in Dan. 9 — because the 490 years also ends with a three-week epogmomenal delay that intersect “Nisan 4-24 incl.” of Dan. 10:1-4. Recall that the New Year on Enoch’s calendar begins midweek, i.e., the 4th day of the week, Wednesday.) Moreover, the last seven years (“2569 days”) of the 490 years equals 1260 + 1260 + 49 days. This harmonizes with the 360-day year and the 49 days of Pentecost, cf., the insufflation of John 20:22 with Rev. 11:3-12. “483 years on the Enoch Calendar is exactly 490 years of 360 days.” Significantly, 490 x 360 (176400 days) plus “2569 days” equals 490 Enochian years (178969 days). This means that 483 years on the Enoch Calendar is exactly 490 years of 360 days. Consequently, the last “week” of Daniels’s “seventy weeks” (of years) overlap (“atone”), Dan. 9:24-27. (See Key of 23.) “176400 days” is also 525 priestly years (336 x 525). (See Key of 23.) All this demonstrates the harmony between the 336, 360, 364, 365, and 365.2425-day year and a lunar and 361-day year. 2b. The 364-day year: Cycles of 40 & 400 years We just explained the Jubilee method of regulating the 364-day year. We now discuss the more straightforward, alternative method. This method is harmonious with the 360 Calendar, to which the Book of Enoch refers, whereas the previous Jubilee method harmonizes with all of Scripture, the Book of Jubilees, and Enoch. Both methods often produce the same result for the New Year. Both ways have advantages and disadvantages. Remember 2012 and the end of the world scare with the Mayan calendar? The Mayan calendar ended its 13th cycle on Dec. 21st, 2012. Each cycle has 144,000 days (that is 360 x 400 days). I posted the calendar converter then, which emphasized the 360 Calendar. Let us now add to this the Enoch calendar of 364 days. It is structured the same as the 360 Calendar. The Book of Enoch informs us that the 364 and 360-day years are the same (Enoch 75:1). This is further evident when the tables below are compared. The two calendars are highly compatible due to their 4-day difference. Observe these calendars’ 4, 40, 400, and 4000 repetitions. Observe below how the 7th cycle is distinguished from the previous six cycles. (It’s the same pattern as at Creation when God worked six days but rested on the 7th.) Both are as accurate as our Gregorian year of 365.2425 days.The 360-cal after 40 years is the same as the Julian year. A “leap month” is 30 days on the 360 Calendar.  Of course, a “leap week” on the Enoch calendar is seven days. Thus, seven leap months/weeks are inserted (intercalated) within each 40-year cycle. This is similar to the seven leap months of the Metonic 19-year cycle of the lunar calendar observed by Jews today. Seven is the number of days of Creation. One can easily see why the Gregorian year of 365.2425 can use the same pattern of creation of seven intercalations within a 40-year cycle employing leap months of 30 days and also leap weeks of seven days (and even leap days as with our modern method). The numbers three, seven, and four dominate the equation for a solar year. As used in our calculations, the below formula for the Gregorian year of 365.2425 is accurate and elegant — something one would expect from God, who created the sun and moon on the fourth day, ‘in the middle of the week’ (seven). As explained before, when 13 and seven come together somehow, it signifies the ‘undoing or reversing the curse (13)’. Example: 13 x 7 x 4 seasons equals the 364 days of the Enoch cal. Now add the outer three branches as it moves towards the center. 13 + 7 + 13 = 33 (or even 40, due to the overlap of the middle seven). The earth, sun, and moon are round — so if you were God, why not have the formula for a circle, “π,” encoded in the length of the year? As compared to our Gregorian Calendar The Gregorian calendar is used throughout most of the world, including the United States. General observations The lunar calendar is well suited to this pattern as well. However, instead of 400 years, there are 399 (7 x 3 x 19). This means that all calendars overlap every ’40 x 40 years’ (less four). We explain the lunar connection next. Two intersecting 400-year periods on the Enoch calendar Details about Enoch Calendar There are two intersecting 364-day calendars: The first began at Creation, and seven cycles 400 years later when Israel entered the Promised Land in the spring of 1406 BC. Creation from this perspective was 4206 BC (very close to the Samaritan Pentateuch Creation date of 4200 BC). The second intersecting cycle began when the angel Gabriel came to announce the birth of John the Baptist and Christ (about) the spring of 6 BC (Luke 1). Therefore, retroactively, Creation was 4006 BC. (Recall the 360-calendar cycle of 4000 years.) There is also the 14006 BC “Creation,” as discussed in earlier posts — but this does not … Continue reading Part 1: Leap weeks of the Enoch Calendar (Jubilee & 40-year cycles)